God "works all things according to the counsel of his will" (Eph. 1:11). We need to study God's decree to grapple with his sovereign foreknowledge. And we must understand God's providence to appreciate his present involvement in our world. God has not left his world to fend for itself.
Still, the relation of God's decree and his working in this world raises challenging questions. We wonder about how providence affects human choices. We struggle to relate providence to human sin. And, if God works all things for the good of the church, why does providence sometimes seem hard even for Christians? We can't answer all these questions to the satisfaction of our curiosity. We can't perfectly harmonize Scripture's teaching on how a good God can be totally in charge of a broken world. But trying to understand God's work in our world can help us develop more mature trust in him.
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